Hi, You could do something like tail -n25 /var/log/mysqld.log | mail -s "Database Logs" user@xxxxxxxxxx, and run it in cron. For logging, if you want to log queries, you would use mysqld --log=/var/log/queries.log, but I'm not sure this is the type of logging you're looking for. What might be a better idea, is do the mysqldump, dump everything to a text file, then, at the end of the text file, append the date so that it looks like: INSERT INTO.... 03/13/2004 Then, just tail the last 10 lines of the text file, and you can verify a couple lines of data as well as the current date. Worse case, you have to restore that data, you just have to remove the date. Hope this helps, Richard -----Original Message----- From: Jai Jones [mailto:jaipls2@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 8:13 AM To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: MySQL Logging Hi, Sorry if this the wrong list, I am a little confused on how to get MySQL logging working, I am hoping some PHP users are doing something like this. I am backing up my MySQL data using a shell script and mysqldump. I would like to be able to send an email notification to myself to know that the dump worked. My idea is tac'ing or tail'ing the last few entries of a mysql (or mysqldump?) log and pipping it to email. Does this sound like a good idea? It appears my server is not logging by default, how do I enable a log that would store this info, or am I looking at this the wrong way. All help is kindly appreciated. Thankyou :) JJ _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger: instale grátis e converse com seus amigos. http://messenger.msn.com.br -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
